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...people owe Mikhail Gorbachev [April 10] for his unique and enormous contributions to peace, it is unconscionable that he is living on a government pension of about $1,400 a month. We should create a special fund for him. For a start, I will gladly contribute half my pension. Cedric Vendyback Kelowna, Canada...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/29/2006 | See Source »

...that millions of people owe Gorbachev for his unique and enormous contributions to peace, it is unconscionable that he is living on a government pension of about $1,400 a month. We should create a special fund for him. For a start, I will gladly contribute half my pension. Cedric Vendyback Kelowna, Canada I was amazed to read that Gorbachev's government pension is only 40,000 rubles a month, about $1,400. I wish U.S. Presidents and politicians received similarly meager pensions. Not only would that be hugely popular with the American public, it also probably wouldn't financially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Give Italy's Under-40s a Chance | 4/25/2006 | See Source »

...Then Cedric Hampton comes to visit. A distant relation of Lord Montdore, Cedric has lived abroad his entire life and English society awaits his arrival with intense curiosity and vague superiority. When Cedric does arrive, he manages to charm everyone. No one seems to mind that he is flamboyantly homosexual, least of all Lady Montdore...

Author: By Natasha M. Platt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Tome Raider: Love in a Cold Climate | 4/19/2006 | See Source »

...Kirk Jones (“Waking Ned Devine”), the movie begins like an episode of the old Fox TV show “Nanny 911,” this time starring the cast of “Love Actually.” Colin Firth plays the widower Cedric Brown, who cannot control his seven unruly children. In the opening sequence, the children, led by the eldest boy (Simon Brown, the cute kid from “Love Actually”) break into the kitchen, tie the screaming cook (Imelda Staunton, “Vera Drake?...

Author: By Margot E. Edelman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nanny McPhee | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

DIED. SKITCH HENDERSON, 87, avuncular, Grammy-winning maestro of TV's Golden Age; in New Milford, Conn. Born Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson, the classically trained musician got his start on radio shows starring Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby (who gave him his nickname) before landing a job as the Tonight Show's first bandleader. With his Vandyke beard and audience-participation games, he was a key part of the show, bantering with Steve Allen and, later, Johnny Carson. After a jail stint for income-tax evasion, he founded the symphonic orchestra New York Pops, which he directed until his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 14, 2005 | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

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